HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Doug Jones is the first Democrat to claim a statewide U.S. Senate seat election win in Alabama in 25 years. His performance Tuesday night made national headlines, but WHNT News 19’s political analyst Jess Brown predicted the outcome three weeks ago.

Brown didn’t just pick a winner in the Alabama special election for the U.S. Senate, back on Nov. 24 he spelled out to us how he thought it would happen.

“I think the turnout that was going to be dismally low will be appreciably higher,” Brown told WHNT News 19

He was right. Voter turnout was 40 percent, more than 1.3 million voters, far higher than the state projected.